Bi Engineer

Description:

Costco IT is responsible for the technical future of Costco Wholesale, the third largest retailer in the world with wholesale operations in fourteen countries. Despite our size and explosive international expansion, we continue to provide a family, employee centric atmosphere in which our employees thrive and succeed. As proof, Costco ranks seventh in Forbes “World’s Best Employers”.

This is an environment unlike anything in the high-tech world and the secret of Costco’s success is its culture. The value Costco puts on its employees is well documented in articles from a variety of publishers including Bloomberg and Forbes. Our employees and our members come FIRST. Costco is well known for its generosity and community service and has won many awards for its philanthropy. The company joins with its employees to take an active role in volunteering by sponsoring many opportunities to help others.

Come join the Costco Wholesale IT family. Costco IT is a dynamic, fast-paced environment, working through exciting transformation efforts. We are building the next generation retail environment where you will be surrounded by dedicated and highly professional employees.

Business Intelligence (BI) Engineers are responsible for the successful delivery, design and support of high visibility desktop reports, mobile reports and dashboards. BI Engineers leverage BI applications in accordance with application development standards and best practices. BI Engineers work closely with Product Owners and Systems Analysts during wireframe development. This role may also engage with BI Solution Architects and Data Architect to assist in solution design efforts including analysis, design and architecture. BI Engineers are responsible for incident management and providing proper feedback to end-users regarding reporting system status and/or errors.

BI Engineers are responsible for designing, engineering, and developing BI solutions. The solutions support critical and ongoing merchandising operations and must be available anytime on any device – laptop, desktop, mobile. BI Engineers work closely with product owners to understand business needs, then design and engineer the appropriate visualizations and analytics to solve the problem. This role also engages with BI Solution Architects and Data Architects to assist in solution design efforts including analysis, design, and architecture. BI Engineers are responsible for supporting the solutions during operations as needed and building appropriate enhancements.

This position will be filled onsite in Issaquah, WA or Dallas, TX.

If you want to be a part of one of the worldwide BEST companies “to work for”, simply apply and let your career be reimagined.

 ROLE 

Assists in the design and development of proof of concept and prototype application environments.
Collaborates to ensure application designs utilize appropriate patterns and standards.
Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.
Translates business needs into technical specifications to deliver customized reporting and software solutions (BI, Advanced analytics, APIs/Services).
Works in tandem with BI/Solution Architects, Data Architects, Data Stewards, Data Engineers, Data Scientists, and Data Quality Engineers to design efficient visualizations, score cards, dashboards, reports. Recommends ongoing optimization of BI data models, data sets, and data quality.
Oversees the end-to-end development and support of Costco’s BI reporting environments for ongoing metrics, reports, dashboards using Power BI, Power App, Power Automate, and other technologies as needed.
Designs and developments proof of concepts and prototype application environments for solving business problems.
Creates data visualizations that illustrate data learnings and insights in an understandable and user-friendly manner through software UI/UX design using Power BI and other tools as needed.
Adopts and adapts to newly approved technologies, programming languages, tools, and standards for business intelligence.
Creates, refines, and optimizes dashboards for reporting applications by connecting to one or many of the following: Oracle, SAP BW, SAP HANA, and Azure services such as Azure SQL DW (Synapse), ADLS, Cosmos, Databricks, Delta-Lake. Improves and speeds up delivery of BI solutions.
Documents BI application specifications and produces operational support manuals.
Analyzes business needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints, including the ability to estimate work needed.
Identifies and interprets trends, patterns, and correlations among various data points.
Assesses functional and nonfunctional requirements and creates designs to meet both business and technical needs.
Designs, builds, and maintains automated reporting, dashboards, and analysis to enable teams to self-service data needs.
Supports defining technical requirements such as tool or platform selection criteria for the reporting environments.
Assists in solution design efforts (i.e. analysis, data warehouse design, architecture) and understands the data warehouse or data marts implementation related to BI.
Identifies, designs, and implements internal process improvements: automating manual processes and optimizing BI capabilities.
Identifies ways to improve data reliability, efficiency, and quality of data management required for building BI applications and reports.
Communicates technical concepts to non-technical audiences both in written and verbal form.
Performs peer reviews for other BI engineers’ work.